Stabile, Carol A.
2014-02-04T00:03:05Z
2014-02-04T00:03:05Z
2014
DOI: 10.1177/1527476413488457
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13627
15 pages
Although most massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) remain entrenched in a
binary system of gendered avatars, the limited representational framework of avatar
creation is only one among many different strategies for what sociologists refer to
as “doing gender.” This essay explores how a doing gender approach might be useful
for analyzing the interactive dimensions of gender play in the rich communicative
environments of MMOs. Specifically, this essay explores how players do (or do not)
hold one another accountable to sex category membership through their interactions,
in so doing either reproducing or resisting normative forms of gender. A doing gender
approach, I argue, holds out the promise of being held accountable to a different set
of rules for doing gender—of doing gender differently or, in a more utopian sense,
perhaps doing away with it altogether.
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Sage Publications
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avatars and agents
feminism
fandom
queer
virtual worlds
video games
“I Will Own You”: Accountability in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
Article

Stabile, Carol A.
2012-05-17T12:35:29Z
2012-05-17T12:35:29Z
2011
“’We Can Remember It For You Wholesale': Lessons of the Broadcast Blacklist", Moment of Danger: Critical Communication History, Ed Janice Peck and Inger Stole, Marquette University Press, 2011
978-0-87462-034-4
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12209
14 pages
The following essay considers the ways in which the broadcast
blacklist affected how media studies scholars think about and study
the 1950s, as well how we understand the role of gender and family
in 1950s popular culture. At the start of the 1950s--at the very moment
in which television was emerging, in the words of blacklisted
writer Shirley Graham DuBois, as "the newest, the most powerful, the
most direct means of communication devised by Man ... .[whose] potentialities
for Good or for Evil are boundless"--a massive ideological
crackdown occurred in broadcasting (Graham 1964. By focusing
on how the blacklist made struggles over gender, race, and class unspeakable
in the new medium, this essays seeks to restore the memory
of these struggles and their participants to accounts of the 1950s, to
underscore the strategic manipulation of culture and memory by conservative
forces, and to remind us just how crucial historical research
is for media studies.
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Marquette University Press
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Blacklisting of entertainers -- United States
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
"We can remember it for you wholesale": Lessons of the broadcast blacklist
Book chapter